Charles Reese

“First and foremost, I am a colorist. Along with color, keys to my artwork are balance, composition, line and movement. I am a painter by training, inclination and choice. My desire is to create and develop new images, which have an element of beauty, movement and mystery, creating emotional impact that viewers can enjoy and appreciate.”

“The story behind my artwork is centered on the challenge: intellectually, physically and emotionally, to develop a setting or a composition that incorporates line, form and color to present an image of movement, rhythm and mystery.”

Kevin Lahvic - Artist

I"Ask a class of first graders if there are any artists in the room and they will always raise their hands. My hand 's still up."

Baltazar Castillo - Painter

Karen Gagich - Painter

Tile maker

Bern - Painter

I create these images as painted expressions of patterned organic energy. Blending the subconscious and sacred geometry into unfolding symbolic harmony. Inspired by the symmetry of nature

Kevin Moeller - Painter

The need for expression, the basic creative urge, is there inside all of us. This urge emerges in many diverse forms of art.
Art has been called the "language of the soul" and perhaps, this is the best that can be said about it.
For the painter, his voice takes the form of visual images, reflecting colors and shapes that speak to the viewer.
To hear the painters voice just open your eyes.

Jeffery Reid - Painter

The paintings are a representation of the coming end or beginning of the new world. Initially, the purpose of the nude women is to seduce ones curiosity, but they are actually angels at war or preparing for war. The shaped canvases are decorative sculpture additives meant to enhance the individuality and inventiveness of the art. As the end nears and wars, rumors of wars, earthquakes, floods, and pestilence occur on earth more frequently, I hope my work directs ones understanding of these signs of the end which will come with fire.

Heidi Dietrich - Painter

Trying to stay neutral

Byron Gin - Painter

I find my inspiration in the simple and the ordinary: a coffee cup, a coat hanger, a man walking down the street. People and things easily overlooked, yet all deserving of a second glance. While my work is representational, there is a hint of abstraction, most evident in the backgrounds of my paintings. Spare and ambiguous, they are often simple fields of color and texture, sometimes suggestive of planes and surfaces, always inviting interpretation as to mood or narrative.

Chris Bernacchi - Photographer

Chris has been in the building for a number of years and has extensive work that he's compiling into a book. Some of it is of this building and the neighborhood so pay attention you might be there in a picture or two.
He has his personal website here if you want to see more of it. I posted this quote for him because he would appreciate it.

Swearengen: Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.

Bernard Colbret - Photographer

Emergence, energy, motion, and emotion, implied in a gesture, are frozen in time.
Skillful execution of composition, setting, styling, lighting, and careful attention to detail, combine to make every Bernard Colbert image dynamic, contemporary, and unforgettable.

Diana Solis - Painter

Diana Solís is a Chicago based painter and art educator. Her art forms also include installation, assemblage, printmaking and mixed media works on paper. She holds a B.F.A. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Solís has been a guest artist at the School of the Art Institute, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia college of Chicago. She has also taught workshops and classes as an artist-in-residence for the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Chicago Park District. Her paintings have been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, in both solo and group exhibitions including the Centre Civic Barceloneta, Barcelona Spain; the Museo de Bellas Artes, Toluca, Mexico; Palacio de Gobierno, Morelia, Michoacan, and in Chicago, at Artemesia Gallery, ARC Gallery, the Aldo Castillo Gallery, the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, the Museum of Science and Industry, Noyes Cultural Art Center in Evanston among others.

Diana has a page in theflatironproject.com site as well as a presence in the WIKI

Headquarters

For rent as a gallery for the around the coyote festival. 3 days $?